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Re:Clocking a 6502 simulator to 15GHz by nikanj on Monday April 13, 2020 @09:36PM (#22861985)
The perceived performance for an average desktop has been pretty stagnant since, I don't know, at least the mid-nineties.
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Re:Clocking a 6502 simulator to 15GHz by ajuc on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @12:27AM (#22862747)
There was a huge perceived improvement when SSDs first appeared.
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Re:Clocking a 6502 simulator to 15GHz by spullara on Monday April 13, 2020 @09:42PM (#22862008)
Softare expands to fill the CPU available.
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Re:Clocking a 6502 simulator to 15GHz by woadwarrior01 on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @12:18AM (#22862705)
AKA Wirth’s Law[1]: “Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware is becoming faster.”

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law

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Re:Clocking a 6502 simulator to 15GHz by FeepingCreature on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @06:14AM (#22864271)
Software is being produced faster though.
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Re:Clocking a 6502 simulator to 15GHz by 6510 on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @01:22AM (#22862976)
Didn't cars also follow that pattern?
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